AppleScript not working

[Braintree Athletics]

Karl:
I've had a lot of success in 2.4 by setting up my Applescript script in
a field (holdMyScript) and then using this line:

put fld holdMyScript into myScript
do myScript as applescript

hope this helps ,,,

Jack Rarick
Braintree Athletic Systems

Karl Becker wrote:

> I was thinking of sending this as a bug report, but I'm not sure if
> it's really a bug...
>
> I'm trying to send some AppleScripts to the Finder, but they're not
> working.  MetaCard does support AppleScript natively, right?
>
> Take this script posted in the list recently as an example:
>    do "tell application "& quote &"finder"& quote &" to restart" as \
>   "applescript"
>
> When I put that into the msg box, it simply says
> alternate language not found.
>
> If I try
> send ("tell application "& quote &"finder"& quote &" to restart") to
> program "Finder" with "MISCDOSC"
> (another method suggested by Sjoerd)
> I get the error message
> Got error -1708 when sending Apple event
>
> What's the problem?  Do I need to install the externals collection?
> I tried running the external collection from
> www.xworlds.com/metacard/ but the AppleScript external actually just
> crashed my computer (though I was in 2.4 at the moment, not 2.4.1) .
> AppleScript works neither in 2.4 nor 2.4.1.
>
> Ideas?  Suggestions?  Just a flat-out bug?
>
> Thanks much
> --
> Karl Becker, KB Productions - http://www.karlbecker.com
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